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Three Forged Letters Of Anne Boleyn: Their Implications For Reformation Politics And Women's Studies, Retha M. Warnicke

Quidditas

The controversy in 1983 over the validity of the Hitler diaries publicized once again the need to authenticate historical and literary documents with great care. The problem of verification has existed since the classical period of history, probably the most famous forgery of all time being the Donation of Constantine, which secured Western Europe for Christendom. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era, the Christian faith has been plagued by charges that many of its holy works and relics are nothing more than fakes or fabrications. Three forged letters of Anne Boleyn, which will be examined here, can …

A Question Of Journalism Ethics, Lucinda D. Davenport

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

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Theological Voices. Pac Politics And The Abortion Debate: Abortion Politics And The Reagan Era, Kenneth W. Barber

Honors Theses

This investigation shall focus upon the issue of legalized abortion. I believe the complex controversy surrounding the issue of abortion, demonstrates more clearly than any other single contemporary issue the social, political, moral and religious forces working for change in a post-Reagan America. I shall examine in depth the theology, writings, strategies and activities of those Americans who seek to express themselves and their beliefs in religious, or religiously supported interest groups.

The current debate surrounding abortion legislation lends itself to several forms of analysis: religious, political, sociological, etc. I will write from the perspective of a student of religion. …

The Economy Of Time: Heidegger And Derrida On Aristotle, Time And Metaphysics, John Protevi

Dissertations

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Animals In The Research Laboratory: Science Or Pseudoscience?, George D. Catalano

Between the Species

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For God So Loved The World, Andrew Linzey

Between the Species

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...And He Was With The Wild Beasts, Paulette Callen

Between the Species

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Books Received

Between the Species

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Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Winter 1990, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Thoughts From the Director Emeritus: Human Rights vs. Natural Rights: Stewardship of the Earth by Bob Clarke
• News & Notes
• "Doing Ethics!" The Bodies
• Comments on "The Bodies" Case by Harold R. Rauzi
• "Ethics Case" Office Thievery
• Notice: The Spring 1990 Program

Middle Knowledge: The “Foreknowledge Defense”, David P. Hunt

Philosophy

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Here Lies The Precious Babe (Paradox) - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An original Christmas carol for mixed (SATB) choir and piano with words by Angelus Silesius.

Stand In The Office - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An anthem for mixed choir (SATB) and piano with words from Doctrine & Covenants 81:3,5,6.

Intellectual Traditions As Predecessors To St. Augustine, Jennifer Lovell

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

St. Augustine both explicitly and implicitly relied on existing intellectual traditions in the construction of his Confessions. He not only explicitly references Neoplatonic thought, he also implicitly constructs his argument around Neoplatonic ideals. He also used rhetorical and epic traditions to create his Christian Doctrine. By blending the teachings of the Bible with these traditions, this paper argues that St. Augustine effectively appealed to the intellectual elite.

The Use Of Vergil's Aeneid In St. Augustine's Confessions, Jennifer S. Oberst

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

In his Confessions, St. Augustine draws a parallel between his own conversion to Christianity and Dido’s suicide in Vergil’s Aeneid. This paper traces the many connections between Dido’s suicide and Augustine’s conversion and suggests that his use of the conventions of her story would have appealed to pagans and thus furthered his effort to broaden the Christian faithful.

Creative Suffering: The Theme Of Mediation In Pascal's Pensées, Kathleen Merrow

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

The idea of mediation runs through Pascal’s Pensées and is an important part of his contribution to western thought. This paper traces the concept of mediation through the theme of creative suffering and the figure of Christ in Pensées. In addition, Pascal’s particular concept of mediation can be found as a supporting concept to the philosophies of such diverse early 20th century figures as Poincare, Blondel, and Bergson. In the end this paper traces a complicated and complex problem for Pascal, that of Mediation, and suggests that it ultimately had tragic consequences for him.

Unity, Coincidence, And Conflict In The Virtues, Lawrence C. Becker

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

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Death, And The Elemental Passion Of The Soul: An Ancient Philosophical Thesis, With Poetic Counterpoint, Lawrence Kimmel

Philosophy Faculty Research

In his famous “Letter”, Epicurus writes to his young friend Menoeceus that “Death is nothing” — either to fear or to hope for.1 This counsel further suggests that death is not something one can claim as his/her own, and that even its contemplation brings “a craving for immortality”, and so, loosens the fragile hold we have on the life of the soul.

Boundaries: The Primal Force And Human Face Of Evil, Lawrence Kimmel

Philosophy Faculty Research

Philosophy can be, rarely perhaps, a call to a sane place, a resolve to take time to consider the Other, to understand and overcome the space between. In quite ordinary and extraordinary ways, this begins over again the elemental process of healing, of becoming whole. This is not the only or even the primary task of philosophy; but in a secular age, one in which everything is negotiable and most things for sale, the convergence of the philosophical and poetic is a still point of access to such elemental passions of the soul.

Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida And The Genealogy Of Morals, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Two cautions or warnings (at least) must be heeded in the attempt to do justice to Nietzsche's project of a genealogy of morals in the text that bears that name. While the Genealogy is often regarded as the most straightforward and continuous of Nietzsche's books, he tells us in Ecce Homo that its three essays are "perhaps uncannier than anything else written so far in regard to expression, intention, and the art of surprise.” If we should think ourselves successful in penetrating to these uncanny secrets and saying what Nietzsche's text means, once and for all, we would then have …

[Introduction To] After The Future: Postmodern Times And Places, Gary Shapiro

Bookshelf

This book brings together diverse aspects of postmodernism by philosophers, literary critics, historians of architecture, and sociologists. It addresses the nature of postmodernism in painting, architecture, and the performing arts, and explores the social and political implications of postmodern theories of culture.

The book raises the question of whether postmodernism is to be seen as one more epoch or period within a succession of eras, or as a challenge to the modernist practice of periodization itself.

The nature of the subject and of subjectivity is explored in order to resituate and contextualize the autonomous subject of the modern literary traditions. …

The "L-Word": A Short History Of Liberalism, Terence Ball, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

Hence the question: Are these good or bad times for liberalism? To answer, we shall need a broader perspective than a survey of contemporary developments can provide. We shall need to look back, that is, to see what liberalism was in order to understand what it has become. Only then can we assess its current condition and prospects-and appreciate how politics in the United States is largely an intramural debate between different wings of liberalism.

The Story In Kierkegaard And Newman, Laura Gill

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

Kierkegaard and Newman might seem strange bedfellows, but both draw on stories from the Bible to inform their moral and ethical arguments. This paper shows how both philosophers use storylines and figures from the Bible to "gain a better understanding of the concept of faith for themselves as well as others." While both philosophers use the storylines to differing ends, this paper argues that the understanding of both philosophies is enhanced by viewing them both through this particular lens.

Human Fetal Tissue: Scientific Uses And Ethical Concerns, Carol A. Tauer Ph.D.

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Human fetal tissue has been used in research for decades, but recent attempts to implant fetal neural tissue as therapy for Parkinson's disease have stimulated discussion of ethical and policy issues. In late 1989 a moratorium on federal support of fetal tissue transplantation research was indefinitely extended, based on the connection between this research and elective abortion. Four abortion-related objections to the use of fetal tissue can be identified: 1. The procedures of abortion and tissue procurement are linked in practice; 2. One who uses fetal tissue is complicit with the abortions which provided the tissue; 3. The prospect of …

An Airborne Rescuer From The North In El Paso: "Ruggiero" Or "Perseus"? "Hippogriff" Or "Horse"?, John F. Moffitt

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I. A Question of Procedure

Review Essay: Charles Dahlberg, The Literature Of Unlikeness, Brenda M. Hosington

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Charles Dahlberg, The Literature of Unlikeness, University Press of New England, 1988.

Review Essay: Henry Ansgar Kelly, Tragedy And Comedy From Dante To Pseudo-Dante, Madison U. Sowell

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Henry Ansgar Kelly, Tragedy and Comedy from Dante to Pseudo-Dante, University of California Press, 1989.

Review Essay: Joanne S. Norman, Metamorphoses Of An Allegory: The Iconography Of The Psychomachia In Medieval Art, Steven Max Miller

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Joanne S. Norman, Metamorphoses of an Allegory: The Iconography of the Psychomachia in Medieval Art, Peter Lang, 1988.

Review Essay: George M. Logan And Gordon Teskey, Eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays On Renaissance Romance, David Freeman

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George M. Logan and Gordono Teskey, eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance, Cornell University Press, 1989.

Review Essay: Murray J. Levith, Shakespeare's Italian Settings And Plays, Jay Farness

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Murray J. Levith, Shakespeare's Italian Settings and Plays, St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism, And Public Decision-Making, Kristin Shrader-Frechette

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

An examination of the legitimacy of attacks on lay assessments of environmental or other technological Risk. The case is made that rational policy requires an epistemology in which what we believe about Risk is bootstrapped onto how we should act concerning Risk.